Courage to Dissent

Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement

Much scholarship about the legal aspects behind the Civil Rights Movement centers around the work of Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court. In a discussion on this topic, Tomiko Brown-Nagin asks what this history would look like if the Supreme Court wasn’t the main focus, and examines the unsung heroes of desegregation. In the video below, Prof. Brown-Nagin, author of Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, spoke at the University of Georgia Law School in Athens.